Listen with open ears and receive the truth coming through this queens video!
If you feel uncomfortable by the truth that is coming through, that’s good. The silence, walls and blinders need to shatter and crumble! Allow the necessary changes to occur within in and act towards unification, equality, peace and love to our beloved African brothers and sisters!! If our sacred black communities have fallen on behalf of what our ancestors did, it’s up to US TO RISE AND ALLOW ALL HUMANITY TO LEAD THE WAY AS ONE!!! #blacklivesmatter ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #unified#unification#riseup#peace#peacefulprotest#listen#listentoyourheart#bipoc#love#oneness

This is a snapshot of my time and experience in a protest. I know it may have been different in other places but I thought it was important to share some things.
I am turning off comments but feel free to DM me with questions. I don’t have all the answers and I may ask more questions than answer yours but that has helped me in my journey of caring for people and at times putting an emphasis on a specific group when they aren’t heard and hurting. #blacklivesmatter#hewentaftertheone#listen#learn#lament#pray#action

hey guys! i know we’ve said this before but we need to say it again to those who haven’t taken any action. IF WE DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO HELP OUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY, NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY. PLEASE TAKE ACTION AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO HELP SOLVE RACISM. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 cr: @cathartic_word#blacklivesmatter#georgefloyd#listen#stopracism#breonnataylor

There’s been a lot on my mind recently. A lot of emotions. I decided to paint to process my feelings. This was the result... and it’s open to interpretation. But what it means to me is that, although our individual voices may be small and we may not have the superpower to fix the problem (no matter how desperately we want to take their pain away ), we still need to contribute albeit in our small ways to catalise the change we want to see in our societies and systems 🖤

I’m a white middle class cis gender canadian, probably one of the most privileged subset on the planet.
I was around 10 when I discovered I was a racist. It was a family party, maybe a birthday, I sat around a table with my older cousins and siblings. I told a joke I’d heard at school, trying to impress. Everyone laughed. I didn’t see my uncle standing nearby. I don’t remember his exact words, but I sure remember his face, and the anger in his voice when he informed me that the joke I just told was at the expense of his wife, someone I loved, degrading her culture, her identity.
I’m not sure if I knew what the word racist was, but in that moment, I knew I was wrong.
15 years later I sat across from the beautiful woman of the amazing culture that I had told that horrible joke about. No longer my aunt, but someone I admire, I interviewed her for an assignment for university, learning and listening to the struggles she had been through and those before her.
I vowed as a nurse, as a human being, to be better. Raise my children better. So here I am, still listening. Still learning. Still trying to do better.
#blm#blacklivesmatter#bebetter#dobetter#listen#solidarity#dontbecomplacent#standup

I highly reccomend watching this documentary on Netflix. It’s opened my eyes to a repulsive system that has been operating since the end of slavery. It’s time we all open our eyes, and watching this film is a start.
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“After the collapse of slavery, a new system was born.” - Michelle Alexander #13TH#blacklivesmatter#educateyourself#showup#listen#blm#avaduvernay

because I had an emergency appendectomy yesterday and feel lucky I had the best team taking care of me... #DrCam , #DrWennergren (Coach Knight ), and my fav #IHC nursing crew...I can’t thank you enough!
While I was writhing in pain much of Wednesday night and into Thursday... I kept thinking 🙄 “I want this to go away.” And while I was in the CT scan I thought 😫, “What’s next #2020 ?”. But after surgery yesterday, laying in bed I thought 🧐 “You should never forget what it feels like to be the patient.” .
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You see, medical professionals probably don’t make for the best patients (for example: I’m way more confident in placing IVs than receiving them 😫😬 👉🏻 thx Kenzie for getting it on the first try 😘 ). .
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Training for a career in medicine takes years (and YEARS ) of learning, listening, following someone’s lead (mentor ), practicing our skills, acknowledge areas of weakness while continuing to refine expertise, and a commitment to our patients to do no harm. .
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There is a lot of talk how we can DO MORE than “do no harm” because some of the decisions made in medicine (like cutting out an appendix ) obviously does cause harm in a way. Yet, the surgery is one that saves lives. .
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With so much going on in the world, I think this concept can apply to all of us...to find ways to DO MORE than “no harm”. Sometimes it’s the small things that can be life-saving or life-changing... like listening, hugging your child, saying you are sorry, standing up for what’s right, never hesitating to tell someone you love them, giving someone grace or the benefit of the doubt, developing perspective, saying hello to a stranger you pass on the walking trail, or sending a text to let someone know you are thinking about them.
That’s all for now. Grateful for all of you.
xo cami 🖤🤍 .
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#domore#listen#patient#seecolor#together#team#love#littlethings#grace#perspective#medicine#nursepractitioner#doctor#nurse#family#hospital#twocams

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What’s up guys!? How’s everyone?
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I’ve been taking my time, creating space, learning, listening & collecting my thoughts.... I know we all have been. And I wrote down what kinda came to me as I was legit laying in bed the other night.
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So here it is:
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This isn’t about you or me or the next guy.
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This is about everyone, TOGETHER, versus the problem.
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We are ALL learning, adapting, & reacting...
So, so what if me, you, or the next guy doesn’t do what you would do or do it how you would do it?
What matters is if they are doing SOMETHING that’s a change in the right direction.
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We are going to respond differently, but let’s give eachother grace. Because 99% of us are on the same side.
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➡️You ARE GOING to mess up, you might say things that come off the wrong way or not use proper language. But keep trying. Don’t give up. Because those 99% of us, in OUR HEARTS, we just want the best.
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This is not going to be an overnight process. It WASN’T an overnight process when it began hundreds of years ago....
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We are unlearning and relearning.
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If you’re in the fitness space like me,
➡️YOU KNOW, slow and steady wins the race.
➡️YOU KNOW you will mess up and try again.
➡️YOU KNOW you have to fail to come back stronger.
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➡️➡️➡️WE ARE DOING THAT SAME THING HERE.👏🏼
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Except this ISN’T about just YOU this time......This is ABOUT US.
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If you are trying your absolute best, even if it’s just ONE THING, that you are taking action for right now that you weren’t before, TOGETHER, that all adds up.
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Because it’s TOGETHER THAT WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS.
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It’s TOGETHER that we can make a CHANGE.

Standing With You... Now in our 3rd year of operation, we are going to donate $300 divided amongst 3 causes. We will also be MATCHING whatever we raise this weekend from you, our customer community! 🖤 Here are the 3 causes we are donating to and raising funds for this weekend: @innocenceproject , @thelovelandfoundation , @blklivesmatter . One for the wrongly incarcerated, one for supporting African American women and girls, and the overall cause! Check them out. We stand with the black community, and push for equal treatment. Love, Sasquatch 🖤 #coffeeforsasquatch#blm

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There’s a lot that has happened in the last week and I’ve noticed something.....
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Even though what I have to say to others may be from a good place, it doesn’t mean that person is really listening to what I have to say. They are just waiting for their turn to speak and attempt to tell me how I should see things.
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We are so quick to defend our actions and point the finger and blame the other person.
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Sometimes we are so overwhelmed with our emotions that we don’t keep an open mind to others thoughts and feelings.
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I think it’s important to pay attention to everyone’s perspective and listen to what others have to say. No one should be forced into believing someone else’s perspective.
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We forget that the goal is to respect, support and love each other.
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We are not enemies, we are allies 💖
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